Cloud Network Reliability Engineer

Job description

Apple Cloud Networking team builds and operates large-scale, software-defined networking platforms that enable secure, resilient, and highly available multi-cloud connectivity with a global footprint. Our infrastructure powers critical Apple services such as iCloud, iTunes, Siri, and Maps.

We are seeking an experienced and visionary Cloud Network Reliability Engineer to drive the technical strategy and execution for ensuring the availability, performance, scalability, and resiliency of Apple's global network services. In this role, you will work as a technical leader solving complex networking challenges at massive scale, partnering with engineering, infrastructure, and operations teams across Apple to deliver reliable, fault-tolerant systems..
As a technical leader within the Cloud Networking organization, you will define and drive the reliability and resiliency architecture for Apple's network platform services. You will be responsible for establishing SRE and SWE best practices, architecting fault-tolerant network control and data planes, and championing data-driven decision-making through observability and automation.

You will drive resilient cloud networking solutions that operate reliably across multiple cloud providers and global regions, handling failures gracefully and maintaining service availability. Your technical leadership will ensure Apple's network services meet demanding availability, latency, resilience, and security requirements while continuously improving operational maturity.

We are looking for a technical expert who deeply understands cloud networking at scale, is passionate about operating mission-critical, globally distributed infrastructure, preventing outages through proactive engineering, and driving long-term reliability improvements through architectural excellence.

<h3>Minimum Qualifications</h3>Extensive experience in software engineering, systems engineering, or infrastructure engineering.
Strong background in designing, operating, and supporting highly available, fault-tolerant distributed systems at hyper scale.
Strong systems programming skills including multi-threading, concurrency, caching, batching
Solid understanding of network infrastructure and software-defined networking (SDN).
Ability to lead cross-functional collaboration and influence technical decisions across teams.
<h3>Preferred Qualifications</h3>Expert knowledge of API design and interface technologies (JSON, ProtoBuf, REST, RPC, XML, etc)
In depth knowledge of K8s, OpenStack, system virtualization, build systems and infrastructure as code
Strong knowledge of observability systems (metrics, logging, tracing) and qualification engineering.
Broad knowledge of networking solutions across OSI layers 3 through 7.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to clearly articulate risk, reliability trade-offs, and operational priorities.
Proven ability to manage competing priorities, drive initiatives to completion, and deliver results in fast-paced environments.